POLL: PBW Games That Attract

[tesco samoa]

NOW, I haven't read this entire forum, so perhaps a bit of "schooling" for some of our readers (me, for example)...just how does the insertion of RP make the game interesting? And how does one go about it during the game? Do people take a Star Trek empire and play it? Or do they choose a demeanor and live up to it? And, if one DOES play a Star Trek empire (for example), doesn't everyone know how they are going to act during the game? Klingons, for example. Does RP limit one to certain types of weaponry? Do alliances automatically have to occur as in the movies? Or is it just shipsets that complete the RP aspect?

RP helps out with setting the atmosphere You just add your own spin to the Messages.... Instead of A trade and research treaty would benifit us you type. Greetings Leader Asmona our Regent Tut the 3rd has decreed that I Minister Ya Ya has been granted the rights to approach your empire and seek to set up trading routes between our empires. We also have scientists who are ready to work together on joint projects. We have heard that your empire is similar to ours in my ways and seek a peaceful relationship.

Please let us know of your responce. Minister Ya Ya.

That is a start of RP. The other player will read that and reply.

For star trek games etc.... It would be up to the the agreeed upon settings of the game if the empires were to RP to their true natures. But since this is an alternate universe to the regular ST the role play would change with what occurs in the game.